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Friday, December 21, 2018
Proposal would allow rural
residential accessory dwellings
Agriculture Committee on
Dec. 14.
While Oregon’s land
use system aims to pre-
serve farmland for agri-
cultural uses, lawmakers
have increasingly been con-
cerned about housing short-
ages across the state.
Dembrow convened a
work group to create “side-
boards” for the concept
of allowing rural ADUs,
resulting in a “legislative
concept” under which such
structures would only be
permitted in rural residen-
tial zones, as opposed to
“exclusive farm use” zones
dedicated to agriculture.
Allowing rural residen-
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Landowners in Ore-
gon’s rural residential zones
would be allowed to build
accessory dwelling units,
commonly called “granny
flats,” under recently pro-
posed legislation.
Such ADUs are cur-
rently prohibited outside
urban areas but there’s
interest among rural resi-
dents about building them
as well, said Sen. Michael
Dembrow, D-Portland.
“I was sympathetic to
that desire but I realize it’s
a controversial idea,” Dem-
brow said before the House
tial ADUs would not be
mandatory under the pro-
posal, which would let
individual counties decide
whether to allow such struc-
tures, Dembrow said.
Another controversial
aspect of ADUs — whether
they can be used for short-
term rentals — would also
fall to county government
discretion, he said.
Whether ADUs contrib-
ute to traffic congestion
or cause other undesirable
conditions could be consid-
ered in the county’s deci-
sion whether to allow them,
Dembrow said.
Although the text of the
legislation has been drafted,
the work group will con-
tinue to meet to refine the
bill, he said.
To be eligible for a rural
residential ADU, the land-
owner’s property must be at
least 2 acres and only a sin-
gle ADU structure per par-
cel would be permitted.
The ADU would have to
be built within 100 feet of
the primary dwelling and
couldn’t be larger than 900
square feet.
If the water source for
the structure is a well, the
ADU cannot be built within
an area where groundwa-
ter withdrawals have been
restricted.
The structures would
also be subject to restric-
tions related to fire safety
and wastewater disposal.
Trade-mitigation aid won’t undo damage
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
After reports last week
that the White House was
delaying additional pay-
ments to farmers to mitigate
lost trade due to retaliatory
tariffs, USDA announced on
Monday a second and final
round of assistance.
Farm groups were quick
to weigh in on the announce-
ment, saying in press state-
ments that while they appre-
ciate the assistance, it falls
short of actual damages and
getting trade back on track is
critical.
The American Farm
Bureau Federation said
farmers and ranchers con-
tinue to feel price pressure
and very real economic
damage due to the trade
actions other nations have
taken.
“While this assistance
package will help a number
of our farm families during
this year of economic chal-
lenges, the best way to pro-
Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle. Financial aid from the federal
government won’t offset lower prices and lost markets
caused by the ongoing trade wars, representatives of
agricultural organizations say.
vide lasting relief is to con-
tinue pushing for trade and
tariff reform from trading
partners like China, Can-
ada, Mexico, India, Turkey
and the European Union,”
Zippy Duvall, AFBF presi-
dent, said.
National Farmers Union
said that while the assistance
is appreciated, it falls woe-
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fully short of the support
required to blunt current
and future damages of the
administration’s trade wars.
“We’ve lost markets
that took decades to build,”
Roger Johnson, NFU presi-
dent, said.
“We’ve lost significant
value on most commod-
ities. And probably most
concerning, we’re losing
our reputation as a reliable
trading partner — jeopar-
dizing international mar-
kets for years to come,” he
said.
The National Association
of Wheat Growers estimates
lost wheat sales to China
and Mexico exceed $500
million.
“These retaliatory tariffs
are not only harming grow-
ers through loss of sales but
are also placing pressure
on wheat prices,” Jimmie
Musick, NAWG president,
said.
“Growers want new
export markets and trade
deals so that this sort of
assistance isn’t necessary,”
he said.
National Milk Produc-
ers Federation said the mit-
igation payments are less
than dairy producers had
hoped but will provide some
assistance.
“The tit-for-tat tariffs
that prompted these miti-
gation payments continue
to inflict damage across the
farm economy,” Jim Mul-
hern, NMPF president and
CEO, said.
“We urge the administra-
tion to resolve tensions with
key trading partners, includ-
ing China and Mexico, as
the best way to assist famers
going forward,” he said.
National Pork Produc-
ers Council said the assis-
tance is proof that President
Trump is committed to U.S.
farmers, but farmers would
rather be producing and
exporting food.
“We need to end these
trade disputes soon and
open new markets so we
can export to consumers
around the globe the safest,
most nutritious pork in the
world,” Jim Heimerl, NPPC
president, said.
American Soybean Asso-
ciation said it is encouraged
that buyers in China this
week purchased U.S. soy-
beans after a long suspen-
sion in sales, but the mitiga-
tion assistance is critical.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife would not
be allowed to kill any wolves in Eastern Washington under a
proposal by a Western Washington legislator.
Call of the westside:
Don’t shoot wolves
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
A Western Washington
lawmaker has introduced a
bill to bar the state Depart-
ment of Fish and Wild-
life from killing wolves in
the eastern one-third of the
state.
Federal law already pro-
hibits lethal control of
wolves in the western two-
thirds of Washington. The
prohibition should be state-
wide, proposes Rep. Sherry
Appleton, a Democrat who
represents Bainbridge Island
across Puget Sound from
Seattle.
Rep. Joel Kretz, a Repub-
lican in wolf-populated
northeast
Washington,
said he may draw inspira-
tion from the proposal. “It
makes me think of introduc-
ing a bill to turn Bainbridge
Island into a wolf reserve,”
he said Monday.
Kretz really did sponsor
legislation in 2013 to release
wolves on Whidbey Island,
also in Puget Sound. It was
an offer — derided as a stunt
and unaccepted — to share
wolves with lawmakers who
oppose culling livestock-at-
tacking packs.
Since then, the number
of wolves in Kretz’s dis-
trict has more than doubled,
while no wolf has been doc-
umented farther west than
eastern Skagit County.
Kretz said ranchers
in his district have come
“10,000 miles” in accepting
wolves and working to min-
imize conflicts, but shoot-
ing wolves when all else
fails remains contentious.
He called Appleton’s bill
“discouraging.”
“That’s the biggest prob-
lem we have in the state —
the disconnect,” Kretz said.
“How could anybody be so
tone deaf to the real-world
problems people are having
with wolves?”
Efforts to reach Apple-
ton on Monday were unsuc-
cessful. She also introduced
a bill to prohibit Fish and
Wildlife from using hound
hunters to pursue and kill
cougars, bobcats, black
bears and lynx to protect
livestock, pets or humans.
On the same day the two
bills were filed, House Dem-
ocrats announced Apple-
ton will chair the Council of
State Governments West’s
public safety committee.
The council is a forum for
developing policy ideas for
13 states.
Appleton’s
proposals
appear to have little chance
of passing. House Agricul-
ture and Natural Resources
Committee Chairman Brian
Blake, D-Aberdeen, said
Monday that the wolf bill
was “unworkable” and
called the hound-pursuit bill
“an emotional response.”
He said Appleton’s wolf
bill would “blow up the
cooperation” between dif-
ferent groups. “It seems
counter-productive,”
he
said.
Fish and Wildlife wolf
policy coordinator Donny
Martorello
said
lethal
removal is an element in
meeting the needs of every-
one concerned about wolves.
Other elements include mea-
sures that foster a healthy
number of wolves, as well as
deer and elk. Martorello said
the department sees these
seemingly disparate goals as
complementary.
“There is no suite of
non-lethal tools that are
guaranteed to prevent dep-
redations or change behav-
ior once depredations start,”
he said.
Appleton’s wolf bill
would allow Fish and Wild-
life to relocate wolves that
are attacking livestock. Fish
and Wildlife officials have
looked at doing that and
decided against it.
Wolves have a tendency
to roam back to their orig-
inal location. The journey
also increases the chances
they will have fatal encoun-
ters with humans, vehicles
and other wolves, according
to wildlife managers. “It’s
risky to move across the
landscape,” Martorello said.
At the Legislature’s
direction, Fish and Wildlife
will study moving wolves
from northeast Washington
to unoccupied areas to speed
up recovery. Fish and Wild-
life plans to start the study
early next year.
Kretz said he may intro-
duce a bill to remove wolves
from the state-protected spe-
cies list in Eastern Washing-
ton, where wolves have sur-
passed recovery goals. The
bill wouldn’t dictate how
wolves would be managed,
but it might call for a new
group of northeast Washing-
ton residents to work out a
post de-listing plan, he said.
Kretz said he may pitch
the policy as a chance to
show how wolves can be
handled once they’ve col-
onized other parts of
the state.
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Currently such structures disallowed outside urban areas in Oregon